In 1969, Apollo 12 began broadcasting from the moon, but Alan Bean accidentally aimed its camera at the sun and killed the live TV feed

During the Apollo 12 mission, astronaut Alan Bean mistakenly aimed the color television camera at the sun, leading to ...

NASA's Apollo 12 survived two lightning strikes, then astronaut Alan Bean accidentally pointed its TV camera at the Sun, ending live broadcasts from the Moon

During Apollo 12s lunar mission, an incident occurred shortly after the astronauts landed on the Moon. Alan Bean ...

NASA left a camera on the moon for 31 months; when Apollo 12 brought it home, scientists found bacteria that appeared to be alive

After 31 months on the moon, a bacterium discovered on the Surveyor III camera is believed to be a case of contamination. A ...
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Apollo Lunar Module Thrust Meter Lives Again

[Mike Stewart] powers up a thrust meter from an Apollo lunar module. This bit of kit passed inspection on September 25, 1969. Fortunately [Mike] was able to dig up some old documentation which ...
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ALSEP: Apollo’s Modular Lunar Experiments Laboratory

Although the US’ Moon landings were mostly made famous by the fact that it featured real-life human beings bunny hopping across the lunar surface, they weren’t there just for a refreshing stroll over ...

Apollo 12 astronauts returned from the moon so filthy that their pilot made them strip before entering his spacecraft; dust stayed under their nails for weeks

After Apollo 12’s two moonwalks in 1969, command-module pilot Richard Gordon initially refused to let crewmates Charles “Pete ...